On the Slogan for a United States of Europe (Editorial Comment)

Editorial Comment bySotsial-Demokraton the Manifesto on War Issued by the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.

Written:Written late August 1915Published:Published in the pamphletSocialism and War, Geneva, 1915.

      Published according to the pamphlet.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,[197[4]],

      Moscow,Volume 21,

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      2003

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Thedemand for a United States of Europe, as advanced by the
    Central Committee’s Manifesto, which accompanied it with a call for
    the overthrow of the monarchies in Russia, Austria, and Germany, is distinct
    from the pacifist interpretation of this slogan by Kautsky and others.

IssueNo.44 of Sotsial-Demokrat,our Party’s Central
    Organ, carries an editorial proving the economic erroneousness of the
    United States of Europe
slogan.[1]Either this is a demand that cannot be
    implemented under capitalism, inasmuch as it presupposes the establishment
    of a planned world economy, with a partition of colonies, spheres of
    influence, etc., among the individual countries, or else it is a reactionary
    slogan, one that signifies a temporary union of the Great Powers of Europe
    with the aim of enhancing the oppression of colonies and of plundering the
    more rapidly developing countries-Japan and America.

[1]Seepp. 339–43of this volume.—Ed.